When building a widget using a wizard, many provided wizards
use the Configure a Widget and Wire
an action to configure a widget wizard pages. On the Configure
a Widget wizard page, if you choose to Wire
as an action, the next wizard page is the Wire
an action to configure a widget wizard page. This page
enables you to create a new widget action and, within that action,
wire a new or existing content type to a widget property.
About this task
To configure one
property as wireable, on the widget configuration wizard page, select
the property from the list on the Basic tab.
To configure more than one property to be wireable, open the Advanced tab.
On the Wire an Action wizard page, use the Basic tab
to wire one Content property value to a Widget
property value. Use the Advanced tab
to create more than one Content property and Widget
property pair.
Procedure
- On the Wire an action to configure a widget wizard
page, specify an Action name or accept the
default widget name.
- Specify whether to use recognized content or other content.
- Recognized content
This provides
a list of all available recognizers based on the widgets in your local
replica. You can also create a new recognizer.
- Other content
This displays a list
from which to choose, such as feed content or text selection. The
text selection options allows a user to highlight text in a document;
and perform an action with that text; the action appears in a menu
when the user performs a secondary mouse click; similar to highlighting
text in a document and then selecting the copy action. The Feed option
lets you wire properties of a feed to a widget property. The action
from the wire is seen when you right-click a feed in the Feed Reader.
- Select a content type from the resulting list.
- Select an existing Content property value
based on the active content type.
Note: These values
equate to Content Types entries in the Widget
Management view.
- Select a Widget property value to
wire to the Content property value.
- Optionally click the Advanced tab
and wire any additional Content property and Widget
property values.
- Click Next and then click Finish.
Note: After you create a widget, you can create more actions
for the widget by right-clicking the widget and choosing Create
a New Action.